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| I Love German Wine and Food - A Nahe Riesling Spatlese |
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| 作者：Levi Rei… 文章来源：不详 更新时间：2008-2-12 20:26:34 | 【字体：小 大】 |
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If you are looking for fine German wine and food, consider the Nahe region of southwestern Germany. You may find a bargain, and I hope that you'll have fun on this fact-filled wine education tour in which we review a local Riesling.
The Nahe wine region is a fairly small area running alongside the Nahe River, a tributary of the much more famous Rhine River. This region is close to many other German wine regions and is at the other end of Germany from the capital of Berlin. Of the thirteen German wine regions Nahe ranks smack dab in the middle; it is seventh in both vineyard acreage and total wine production. While approximately 90% of its production is white wine, the red percentage is definitely on the upswing. The three major white grapes are Riesling, Mueller-Thurgau, and Silvaner. Only about 2% of Nahe wine is low quality Landwein. About three quarters of the local wine is medium quality QbA wine that allows winemakers to add sugar to the fermenting mix (chaptalization). The rest is higher quality QmP wine that outlaws this practice. You may remember from my Launching a Series article that while Spaetlese literally means late-harvest, these wines are in fact made from ripe grapes. Only about 1% of Nahe wines carry this premium designation. In spite of these daunting statistics, the wine that we review below is a Riesling Spaetlese.
Bad Kreuznach is a city of about fifty thousand on the Nahe River. Historians believe that the site was initially settled thousands of years ago. The baths for which the city is named have been known since Roman times. They contain radium, which is said to cure various ailments. Funny, I always thought that radium was a poison. Bad Kreuznach's Gothic Pauluskirche (St. Paul's Church) has held many weddings over the years. It most famous bridegroom was Karl Marx who married Jenny von Westphalen in 1843. The city center is home to many historic buildings. The nearby town of Bretze[1] [2] [3] 下一页
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